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5 World-Changing Innovations

Thursday, 3 Jan 2013 | 5:40 PM ET

Within the next 5 years, your mobile device will let you touch what you're shopping for online. Bernard Meyerson, IBM chief innovation officer, breaks down the next 5 years of technological advances, which he calls "the era of cognitive systems."